FoxPro fxp Files

Question

I know very little about FoxPro, but I have a project that requires working with a third-party application based on FoxPro and a .fxp file. The thrid-party application is a sales system, and software developers have provided a .fxp file that allows us to export product information in XML format.

The problem I am facing is that the software does not have the ability to schedule the .fxp file to run at regular intervals, which we need to save so that this XML file is updated.

My question is, can a .fxp file run outside of FoxPro?

Alternatively, can I create my own FoxPro application to execute their .fxp file and connect it to the POS database for export.

Any ideas or alternatives are welcome.

Thanks Brian

Answer 1

Write another FoxPro program and run it using "DO file.fxp" or import the FXP file into the project, set it as run and build.

Answer 2

You can invoke FXP directly from the command line to start FoxPro. This will allow you to schedule the application through the Windows task manager or any other program.

Something like this in the BAT file: "C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9 \ vfp9.exe" c: \ clients \ myProgram.fxp

Answer 3

• .fxp FoxPro?

FXP Foxpro/Visual Foxpro ( PRG).
, FP/VFP.

2. FoxPro .fxp POS .

Firstly, we don’t know whether the FXP procedure itself will connect to the POS data tables. We can only assume that this is so. If so, then, as others have indicated above, you can really write your own FP / VFP routine to run FXP.
You would like to write your new procedure in VFP9 so that its backward compatibility supports the commands in your existing FXP utility no matter what version is written.

Luck